Assortment of flowering time and immunity alleles in natural Arabidopsis thaliana populations suggests immunity and vegetative lifespan strategies coevolve
S. Glander, F. He, G. Schmitz, A. Witten, A. Telschow, J. de Meaux
The paper shows that in Arabidopsis thaliana, immunity gene expression correlates with flowering time, suggesting coevolution of immunity and vegetative lifespan strategies.
bioRxiv · May 31, 2018Evolutionary Biology